Posted on August 27th, 2008 by Marian Houk
There is still NO INFORMATION at all about what is happening at the gap in The Wall (between what will be the West Bank and northern Jerusalem) at Dahiet al-Bariid. There are only rumors.
Maybe it will be closed before Ramadan (which will start on 1 September). Maybe it will be closed at some [...]
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Filed under: Boundaries & Borders, Human Rights, IT and the UN, International Law, Middle East Peace Process, Palestine & Palestinians, Register of damages due to The Wall
Posted on March 5th, 2008 by Marian Houk
Yousef has kindly sent this link which he found interesting on Slashdot, announcing a new UN data base set up by the Department of Economic and Social Affairs (DESA). I would not have found it on my own…
The head of DESA, Sha Zukang was a very effective Ambassador for China [...]
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Filed under: IT and the UN
Posted on August 30th, 2007 by Marian Houk
The UN says that a journalist is someone who is necessarily hierarchically subordinate to an editor.
And, the new head of the UN Department of Public Information on the purpose of his job? Protecting the SG.
These revelations are reported by Matthew Lee on 28 July on his Inner City Press Blog:
“In late June in Madrid, [...]
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Filed under: IT and the UN, Journalism and Journalists, UN Administration
Posted on August 30th, 2007 by Marian Houk
Darren Pauli of Computerworld Australia is reporting that “The United Nations (UN) has been hit by a string of hacking attacks aimed at identity and credit card theft, and building botnet hordes. The attack on the UN Asia Pacific website is believed to originate from the same group responsible for attacks on the US-based [...]
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Posted on August 12th, 2007 by Marian Houk
Slashdot, a tech site is reporting that the main UN site was hacked using a technique called “SQL Injection”. This well known vulnerability typically occurs when a database-driven site exposes too much information, thus allowing users to manipulate database commands via the URL bar.
Also worth noting is the run on expensive, proprietary Microsoft software. [...]
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Filed under: BAN Ki-Moon, IT and the UN, UN Secretary-General, United Nations
